About the Authors

Keunsub Lee

Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Xiaoqiu Huang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Chichun Yang

Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Danny Lee

Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Vincent Ho

Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Kan Nobuta

Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Jian-Bing Fan

Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Kan Wang

kanwang@iastate.edu

Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

DL, VH, KN and JBF are employees of Illumina, Inc. The study used the RNA-seq products developed at Illumina. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW KL. Performed the experiments: KL CY DL VH KN. Analyzed the data: KL XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW JBF XH. Wrote the paper: KL KW. Wrote script used in analysis: XH.